Democracy and Its Fragility
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Democracy and Its Fragility

Mapping the Unstable Equilibrium

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Democracy and Its Fragility

Mapping the Unstable Equilibrium

About this book

This book explores democratic fragility, an underdeveloped concept in the analyses of contemporary political regimes. Diagnoses of fragility commonly occur when states are brought to the brink of the abyss. Democracy and Its Fragility: Mapping the Unstable Equilibrium builds on the premise that fragility is an inherent trait of democracy that expresses its exposure to disintegration yet does not foretell its death.

Employing a novel conceptual lens that seeks to scrutinize the stability of contemporary democratic regimes across the world, the book offers a twofold contribution that provides new leverage for analysis. Theoretically, it refines the notion of fragility, making it a complementary variable to the latest research on robustness and resilience. Empirically, the volume engages with an overview of fragility indicators featured in indices mapping the quality of democracy and an assessment of their limitations. What follows are in-depth qualitative case studies zooming into the struggles for democratic regime maintenance and response to a variety of unfavourable conditions in 13 countries across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Southern Europe and the Americas.

Addressing issues that are both conceptually advanced and highly accessible, Democracy and Its Fragility: Mapping the Unstable Equilibrium will attract academics and students of democracy studies, politics and government, and comparative politics.

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Yes, you can access Democracy and Its Fragility by Monika Sawicka,Artur Gruszczak,Aleksandra Zdeb in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Democracy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Figures
  8. Tables
  9. Notes on contributors
  10. Introduction: The ‘super-election’ year and the timeliness of democratic fragility
  11. 1 Democracy: The contemporary understandings
  12. 2 Democracy: A fragile notion
  13. 3 A fool’s errand? Quantifying democratic fragility
  14. 4 Declining press freedom as a source of democratic fragility in Japan
  15. 5 Causes and sources of South Korea’s fragile democracy
  16. 6 Screening Indian democratic fragility: The question of press freedom
  17. 7 Fragility of post-conflict consociational democracies: Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia in the quest for democratic stability
  18. 8 Black chronicle: Criminal state capture and democratic fragility in Montenegro
  19. 9 Endemic fragility? The case of consociational power-sharing in Lebanon
  20. 10 Pressure from new churches and the fragility of Kenyan democracy
  21. 11 Dwindling democratic dividends and democratic fragility in Nigeria
  22. 12 Societal cracks expressed through la grieta. Political polarization and democratic fragility in Argentina
  23. 13 Fake news and fragility: Bolsonaro and the Supreme Federal Court in the pendulum of Brazilian democracy
  24. 14 Criminal governance and democratic fragility in Mexico
  25. 15 Polarization, partisanship and democratic fragility in the United States of America
  26. Conclusions: The modalities of democratic fragility
  27. Index